Episode 3 – Snow Cones and Beef Boys or: how to spend a summer day in Los Angeles

November 17th, 2009

You’ll see in this episode a trailer from my film Beef Boys. (You can see the movie poster on the right column of this page.) I’m proud of my work in this award-winningfilm. When you’re working with the kind of script that I wrote, it’s not hard to act. It flows so smoothly, like sausage through a grinder. I really encourage you to visit the film in its entirety here: http://www.youtube.com/usofbeef.


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Episode 2 – Apartment Tour or: how to hide your condoms in a modest apartment

November 17th, 2009

As you’ll see in this video, I live quite richly, and Nikolai is in for a real treat rooming with me. People always ask me: “David ‘Dave,’ how do you afford such a penthouse apartment with all the accoutrements of an aristocrat?” Swag bags.

As I’ve told Nikolai numerous times, the key is not to get invited to the hottest parties, but to the right parties. I don’t need Sean John cologne (I naturally smell good), but I do need Ziploc sandwich baggies and Saran Wrap, so I make damn sure I’m VIP at the Dow Chemical holiday party each year. If you didn’t know, Dow not only makes the best containers for leftovers, but also some pretty handy other products, such as insulation, breast implants, and napalm.

And unlike most folks, I re-accessorize my apartment yearly because I’m always crashing the Pier One Imports board meetings. That’s right, many corporate board meetings have swag! I yammer on about wicker chairs and how bamboo is the wonder wood, and they’re so impressed (or incensed) by my outpouring that a premium swag bag is in my hand before I know it. I’ve got a set of coconut-shaped salad bowls and flamingo butter knives that are gonna wow my next dinner party guests.

Finally, holiday shopping can be so overwhelming. So I don’t leave the house. I just look at all the items I’ve collected in my swag bags over the years and create little gift baskets of treasures for the family. Aunt Sue is still sending me thank yous for her assortment of Frito Lay chips, travel-size bug spray, and the Iowan Firefighters Calendar, “Hold My Hose ‘09.” It feels good to give.

Episode 1 – Meet David “Dave” or: how to fall in love with your foreign exchange student all over again

November 17th, 2009

Welcome to USofAnderson.com and my first video! As you can tell, I’m quite jazzed and juiced about heading on a road trip with Nikolai, and I hope you’ll join me as I document this groundbreaking journey. Today I’m launching three videos, and I plan on adding one new video a week for about the next year. Sure it’s a tall order, but as you’ll come to learn, I, David “Dave” Anderson, eat tall orders for breakfast, normally of flaxseed blueberry pancakes with a drizzle of maple syrup.

Oh, and Nikolai wants me to plug his latest video art. Here it is: www.youtube.com/usofnikolai.  He claims he won The International Minsk Film Festival with this piece. Dubious. You should see the stuff that comes out of Minsk.